When Washington lobbyist Evan Bayh decided it was time to walk back through the revolving door, his claims that he was called to serve rang as hollow as the notion that he once left the Senate to pursue an ‘honorable line of work.’
- “He said (Hillary Clinton) didn’t convince him to run but won’t say if he talked with her. ‘I’m not going to go into personal conversations and that kind of thing,’ he said, ‘but let’s just say no one could talk me into running for public office.’” – WISH TV, 7/13/16
So much for that.
Bayh’s just not telling the truth. A report today describes how consummate Washington insider Chuck Schumer personally recruited Bayh and was the ‘personal driving force’ behind convincing him to run again:
Most notably, Stabenow said, Schumer recently lobbied former Sen. Evan Bayh of Indiana to run for the seat that he retired from in 2010 – a move that instantly made the Indiana seat much more competitive for Democrats.
‘He was the driving personal force behind getting Evan Bayh to reconsider,’ Stabenow said. ‘He was very tenacious. It involved a lot of conversations, a lot of dinners.’
Evan Bayh can’t even bother hiding the fact that he’s a creature of Washington. A corporate lobbyist, D.C. resident, and close personal friend to the country’s most well-connected politicians, Bayh is just a political insider whose only goal is getting rich off the system rather than fighting for Hoosier families.